Lifestyle

December is a quiet month at Shaker Village, the restored village south of Lexington on 3,000 acres of rolling Kentucky farmland and forest. It’s just the place for those wishing to escape the fray of the holidays or plan an escape to its rural serenity come spring.

Opinion

There are certain proper nouns that become adjectives, they so embody their era and perhaps all eras. As in Shakespearean or Homeric — but who’d have thought one of those names would be Franz Kafka’s? For his writings have come to stand for 20th-century man’s sense of bereavement and bewilderment as he found himself lost in a world he never made.